"It was quick, shocking, certainly eerie. After walking from that winner’s circle celebration, while getting the usual after-race hosing and dousing with water, Arcadius stepped awkwardly to his right, raised his head, stiffened his front legs and dropped to the ground on his left side. Before he fell, his right eye went blank — flashing life, death, pain, something. Humans sprang to action — with more water, ice, medicine. It had looked like a heat stroke, even on a day when temperatures barely reached 70 under a gray sky. Horses do that: they overheat, they get medical attention, they cool off, they get up and walk away — tired, but alive. Not this time."

"Sunday afternoon, 57-year old jockey Josef Vana bagged his seventh Velka Pardubicka title."